Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "Breaking: New NYT Poll Shows Harris SURGING in Crucial Swing States." video.
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@garybryson1900 The Federal gov't is a system of laws; gov't is by definition rule of law. And the Constitution is the SUPREME Law of the Land.
But of course you wouldn't know what's in the Constitution because you can't be bothered to actually READ that which you reject.
And the Confederacy -- despite all the LYING by the south's FAKE "historians," was about preserving SLAVERY. So that's what you are defending by rejecting the Constitution.
Where in the Constitution is secession prohibited?
"Art. I., S. 8., C. 15. The CONGRESS shall have Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute [ENFORCE] the Laws of the Union, SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS, and repel Invasions."
"Art. I., S. 8., C. 16. The Congress shall have Power To provide for organizing, ARMING, and disciplining, the Militia . . . reserving to the States respectively the Appointment of the Officers [state constitutions stipulate that the governor is the commander-in-chief and shall appoint or nominate the officers with the consent of the state legislature], and the Authority of training the Militia in accordance with the discipline prescribed [IN Federal Militia Acts] BY CONGRESS.
Constitutional provisions are implemented by means of statutes. Here are two of those:
May 2, 1792: "An Act to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute [ENFORCE] the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions."
May 8, 1792: "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defense by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States."
More than two years AFTER the Second Amendment was ratified, Congress enacted a Militia Act in response to the "Whiskey" insurrection:
November 29, 1794: "An Act to authorize the President to call out and station a corps of Militia, in the four western Counties of Pennsylvania, for a limited time."
Thus the Constitution provides the United States gov't, the Union, the authority to protect the United States, the Union, against political violence such as the insurrection committed against the Union by the seceding states/Confederacy.
And read the Treason Clause:
"Art. III, S. 3., C. 1. Treason against the United States [i.e., the Union], shall consist only in levying War against them ["them" being the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
The Southern states seceded -- their Senators made speeches on the Senate floor declaring why: to preserve slavery. And those states formed the Confederacy, which levied War against the United States.
Art. IV. S. 3, C. I. New States be admitted by the Congress [for secession to be Constitutional it would have to be the reverse of that process: authorized by Congress] into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned AS WELL AS OF THE CONGRESS."
The status of states in relation to the Union is under the jurisdiction of Congress; and the Constitution is SUPREME over the states.
S. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and . . . against domestic Violence.
"Art. VI., S. 2. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land . . . any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
And the First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people PEACEABLY to assemble."
Thus Congress has the authority, as made clear in multiple places in the Constitution, to make laws prohibiting violence, and to enforce the laws by suppressing violence by use of whatever force is necessary to do so.
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